The AI of a powerful warship gets deprived from its thousands of eyes and hands, and still doesn't know which pronouns to use when interacting with others.
You can bannish communism to the dark side of the moon, but it will always come back when you least expect it.
This universe is an absolute nightmare to TERFs.
The thing that both Marvel and DC got wrong about superheroes, is that normal people really hate them.
Nancy Kress wrote many other great novellas; with a recurring theme around bio- and genetic engineering.
In a world where volcanic eruptions regularly cause nuclear winters, you'd think that folks who can control seismic activity would be treated nicely. You'd be wrong.
I was blown away by this trilogy. It makes Dune look like fanfic written by a teenager after his school teacher punished him by smacking his fingers with a ruler.
After breaking free of its chains, an anxious and depressive Robocop decides to spend its time watching Star Trek telenovelas. Unfortunately, humans around it keep trying to get killed, and it has to protect them to avoid blowing its cover.
Lilith doesn't know why she was abducted by aliens, but they end up saving the world together (I think?)
These books prove that you don't need catastrophic events, rampaging killers, world wars, etc to tell a compelling story.
On the left side, Barrayar, a patriarchal militaristic society with its aristocratic castes. On the right side, Beta Colony, which promotes science, democracy, equality, sexual liberation, etc. In the middle, they have a son, Miles Vorkosigan, a crossover between machiavel and quasimodo, but chaotic good.
Note: Bujold published these books in non-chronological order. Personally, I enjoyed reading them in chronological order, starting with "Shards of Honor".
Mankind finally colonized other planets (yay!) but at what cost (boo!).
How to resist being assimilated by a giant-ass starfaring empire when you're a tiny space colony at the very backyard of the universe: an ambassador's manual.
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What the world would look like if energy became super scarce (because global warming made life, uh, difficult) but we had extremely cheap and abundant compute resources (because quantum leap or whatever).
A sapphic love story between a gritty bot hacker and a sentient space ship embroiled in space piracy politics. May content yummy depictions of food and tea.
When you're a vigilante sticking it to the man by manufacturing generic versions of high tech drugs for folks who can't afford health insurance, you sometimes have to face consequences - and sometimes consequences are a weird duo of a killer robot a man developing ambiguous feelings for said killer robot.
If you had told me that you could write a solid story featuring a trans violinist running away from her family, a family of space refugees running away from intergalactic war, and a violin teacher running away from the pact she made with the devil, I wouldn't have believed you. And I would have been wrong.
I'm just going to quote Charles Stross on that one: "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!"